Book of Hours
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Accession number:
MS M.659
Title:
Book of Hours
Created:
Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1500.
Binding:
Formerly in full red levant morocco, blind-tooled, by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1926; now matted.
Credit:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1926.
Description:
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; 183 x 133 mm
Provenance:
Frederick Locker-Lampson; his name written at lower part of verso (catalogue, 1886, p. 221); purchased by J. P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1926.
Notes:
Ms. breviary or book of hours single leaf; illuminated in Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1500.
Verso is blank with the name F. Locker written at the bottom.
Artist: Gerard David, or Gerard David and another illuminator, or workshop of Gerard David.
Decoration: one full-page miniature depicting the Virgin and child with female saints.
Variant Title:
The Virgin among virgins.
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